Combination table and lounge.



T. McGAW.

COMBINATION TABLE AND LOUNGE.

APPLIOATI'ON 21mm MAY 1a, 1908.

91 3,032. e Patented Feb. 23, 1909'.

THOMAS MCGAW, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

COMBINATION TABLE AND LOUNGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed May 18, 1908. Serial No. 433,376.

' T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MoGAw, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combination Table and Loun e; and I do declare the following to be a in 1, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in combination furniture and comprises a combination sanitary couch and table of a type which is especially adapted for use in places where space is an item to be considered, such for example, as Salvation Army quarters, etc.

Preceding a detail description of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, of which-- 'Figure 1, is a perspective view of my invention converted into a sanitary couch or lounge, part of the spring mattress being broken away. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the same with the ends elevated to form a table as shown by the dotted lines.

In a detail description of the invention, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

1 designates the parallel sides and 2 designates the end pieces which parts are made of a suitable angle iron. The ends 2 are united to the sides 1 by hinges 6 so that said ends may be lowered as in Fig. 1 or elevated as shown in the dotted position in Fig. 2. At a point adjacent to the sides of the end portions 2, the side frames 1 terminate in legs or standards 3 3 which are continuations of the sides 1 and have a suitable curvature. Extending between the legs 3 3 are two cross braces 4 also made of angle iron and providing rigid braces for the legs. Covering the space between the frame consisting of the sides 1 and the ends 2 is a wire mattress 7 which is connected to the end cross pieces 2 and is essentially free from any connection with the sides of the couch so that the ends 2 may be elevated upon their hinges 6 freely. Attached to each of the hinged ends 2 in a rigid manner, are inclined boards 8 which serve the double purpose of pillow boards at either end of the bed when the structure is converted into a lounge or couch, and a table when the structure is converted into a table.

It will be understood that couches or lounges of the character described are of standard length and height and that tables are likewise of standard height. In preserving these standard dimensions in combining a table and couch, it is necessary that the hinged extensions 2 2 have a greater are movement than 90 degrees, in order that the table may have the proper height; owing to this, it is essential that the table portions 8 8 be rigidly attached to the end sections of the couch on inclinations substantially as shown. On one of these table sections there is a hook 9 and on the other table section there is a staple 10, both of said devices being on the underside of the arts when they are elevated to serve as a table and by means of which devices the parts are connected when serving as a table.

The table sections 8 form head and foot portions of the couch or lounge when the article is converted into such.

5 designates angle braces between the table sections 8 and the undersides of the side members of the ends 2, said angle braces 5 serving to rigidly hold the table sections 8 in either of their positions.

I claim:

In a convertible lounge and table, a frame comprising parallel side members, the ends of which terminate in legs, end frames hinged to the side members at the ends thereof, boards rigidly attached to the ends of said frame members on inclinations, substantially as shown and described, said inclined boards being adapted to support a pillow at either end of the lounge when the device is converted into a bed, or a table when the device is converted into the latter article, said boards being adapted to assume a horizontal position when the end frames are elevated upon their hinges, and to thus provide such table, and transverse angle brackets secured to the portions of said boards lying below the end frames, and to said end frames.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS MCGAIV.

Witnesses:

MATTHEW SIEBLER, O. M. THEOBALD. 

